TED-Ed
How Misused Modifiers Can Hurt Your Writing
Misplaced modifiers are a common grammar error, but can your learners identify when a modifier can interfere with a reader's understanding? Watch a short and entertaining video from Ted Ed that illustrates misplaced modifiers, as well as...
PBS
Career Connections | Advertising Director
Being an advertising director requires more than the ability to craft ads for products and services. The president of an advertising, design, and marketing agency details what he believes are the skills essential to becoming an...
Ereading Worksheets
Clauses | Parts of Speech App
Here is a video that is not short of detailed information on clauses. Delve deep into the workings of predicates, clauses, and dependent clauses, then have pupils show what they know with an interactive pop quiz. End the...
Jen Johnson
Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, & Fragments
When is a clause a complete sentence, and when do you need to add a subordinate conjunction? Practice complex sentences and avoid fragments with a grammar video. With fun pictures and interesting graphics, the video will get through to...
Texas A&M University
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Are your pupils leaving their modifiers dangling? Or perhaps they've simply misplaced them. Help your class handle their modifiers properly by showing them a short informational video. The video includes definitions of the grammatical...
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 12: The Appositive
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has an appositive phrase.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part I
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to edit error in sentences that have participial phrases. [8:53]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 3: Prepositional Phrases Again: Grammar
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has prepositional phrases.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the topic of participial phrases and participles as adjectives. [4:34]
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar. What Adjectives Are: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what adjectives are and how to correctly use them in sentences.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Parsing a Sentence: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to analyze the different words' functions within a complex sentence.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Prepositional Phrases
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to avoid certain errors related to prepositional phrases. [8:20]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Appositive and Punctuation: English Grammar, Language
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how punctuate appositive phrases. [8:05]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Dependent Clauses: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the following dependent clause types: noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses. [8:16]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 11: The Subordinate Clause
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to diagram a sentence with a subordinate clause.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 2: Prepositional Phrases: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has a prepositional phrase in it.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
A list of terms and examples followed by three videos on how modifiers function within a sentence [2:53], how to identify and correct dangling modifiers [10:15], and how to identify and correct misplaced modifiers. [7:28]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Comma Splices, Independent Clauses, and Subordinate Clauses
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to avoid comma splices when working with independent and subordinate clauses. [6:42]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dangling Modifiers
A modifying word or phrase 'dangles' when it doesn't apply to the word it's supposed to modify. Learn how to spot and fix this problem!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrases and Clauses
A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase ("my brother Stu"), an adjectival phrase ("in a different shade of blue"), or an adverbial phrase ("with elegance and tact"). A clause is any noun...